- The most difficult, the most delicate, the most interesting, and a very worthwhile job is that of making people laugh.
- Comedies must be clean and wholesome. That is very important. We may laugh at the joke of a comedy situation that is off-color, but we don't mean it. The laugh is no more sincere when the cause is the man slipping and falling on a banana peel.
- Repetition in comedy is very funny at times and other times not. Nothing is more overdone, and nothing is more awful when it is overdone. You can do a stunt just once too often and spoil the whole effect. An assortment of crockery hurled with unerring aim and in quick succession at a fleeing form provokes uncontrollable laughter that increases with every plate that flies, up to a certain point. Beyond that, the situation palls.
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